Continuous-form stationery



July 4, 1944- G. L. BARKER 2,352,757

CONTINUOUS-FORM STATIONERY I Filed May 17, 1943 Patented July 4, 1944CONTINUOUS-FORM STATIONERY Gregson L. Barker, Chicago, Ill., assignor toUnited Autographc Register Co., Chicago, Ill.,

a corporation of Illinois Application May 17, 1943, Serial No. 487,259

3 Claims.

This invention relates to continuous-form stationery and moreparticularly to an improved fastener, made of the paper itself, forholding the strips together.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a simple andinexpensive fastening for long strips of continuous-form stationery,which may be interleaved with carbon strips or other transfer material,which will not interfere with the feeding of the stationery throughbusiness machines and will not have thread, staples, or the like whichmight become detached and fall into the writing machine.

A further object of the invention is to provide a fastener forcontinuous-form stationery which may be provided with feeding aperturesand to position the integrally formed improved fastener so that portionsof the strip which are out away to form the fastener will leave openingswhich may also serve as feeding apertures.

Continuous-form stationery is well known in the art and it has beencommon to connect the superposed strips by various means, such asstaples, sewing, glue, and the like. However, such stationery iscommonly used in large and expensive typewriting machines and if astaple or piece of thread happens to come loose, it may drop into themachine and interfere with its operation. Glued forms do not permit anyrelative movement between the strips and form hard portions which arediflicult to feed around acircular platen. It has heretofore beenproposed to connect superposed continuous-formed strips by cutting Vshaped notches and pressing the tongues upwardly or downwardly. However,as the tongues were not interlocked, the strips became detachable.

In the present invention tongues are partially cut from the paper, arereversely folded and their free ends projected through an adjacent setof slots so that the strips are securely held together at all times.This particular form of fastening has been used to secure letter sizesheets together but as far as applicant knows, it has never been used inconnection with continuous-form stationery or with stationery havingfeeding apertures in the manner proposed by applicant.

'Ihe invention is illustrated in a preferred embodiment in theaccompanying drawing in which- Fig, l is a plan view of a manifoldassembly provided with the improved connections: Fig. 2 is an enlargedfragmentary view showing the particular fastener employed; and Fig. 3 isa fragmentary sectional view taken as indicated at line 3 of Fig. 2.

In the embodiment illustrated superposed strips of record stationery 4are provided with forms having lines of weakening 5 between forms sothat after a set of forms has been filled in, they may be readilydetached. Usual carbon strips 6 may be provided and preferably theassembly is provided with a longitudinally extending detachable marginalstrip 'l in which the fastening means is located.

If desired, the stationery may be punched at the time it is printed asindicated at 8 and these perforations used in assembling the variousstrips into proper registration before they are interlocked together.After the strips have been brought in the superposed relation, a cut ismade through the assembly as indicated at 9 and the tongues lil whichare thus formed are folded downwardly and then projected up through aslot Il and the free ends I2 are folded over the uppermost strip towardsthe bottom of the form. By this arrangement the free ends of the tonguewill not catch on parts of the writing machine and interfere with theadvancement of the stationery. This connection may be performed veryquickly by machines known in the art. Subsequently, if desired, thestationery may be fed through a perforating machine and marginalperforations l 3 or other desired perforations may be made. During thisoperation the form is kept in proper alignment by means of the apertures8 and the holes cut to form the tongues l0 are positioned so that theopening may also serve as one of the feeding apertures.

After the forms have been filled in on the machine, and it is desired toseparate the various sheets, this may be done by pulling off thedetachable margin 1, along a longitudinal line of weakening I l.

The foregoing detailed description has been given forclearness ofunderstanding only and no unnecessary limitations should be understoodtherefrom for some modifications will be obvious to those skilled in theart.

I claim:

1. Continuous-form stationery comprising: a plurality of superposedstrips of record forms provided with interleaved transfer material, saidstrips being interlocked together by tongues partially cut at regularlyspaced intervals from the strips and folded together and impalingadjacent superposed slots in all of said record strips, the openingsleft by said tongues being adapted to serve as feeding apertures.

2. Stationery as specied in claim 1, in which the tongues projectthrough the slots positioned so that the free ends of said tongues areabove the uppermost strip and are directed rearwardly when the stripsare advanced into a writing machine.

3. Continuous-form stationery comprising; a plurality of superposedstrips of record forms provided with detachable marginal portions havingfeeding apertures at regularly spaced inter- 10 vals, said strips beinginterlocked together by tongues which are partially cut from thedetachable marginal portions and reversely folded and projected throughadjacent superposed slots in all of said record forms, said tonguesbeing disposed entirely between said feeding apertures, and the openingsleft by said tongues being positioned to serve as regularly spacedfeeding apertures. Y

GREGSON L. BARKER.

